If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have. - Stephen Jay Gould 1 Share Now -
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. - Stephen Jay Gould 2 Share Now -
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. - Stephen Jay Gould 3 Share Now -
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. - Stephen Jay Gould 4 Share Now -
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. - Stephen Jay Gould 5 Share Now -
